If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium is a 1969 American DeLuxe Color romantic comedy film made by Wolper Pictures and released by United Artists. It was directed by Mel Stuart was filmed on location throughout Europe, and features many cameo appearances from various stars. The film stars Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron, Michael Constantine, Norman Fell, Peggy Cass, Marty Ingels, Pamela Britton, and Reva Rose.
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A Remarkable Document
Filmed the summer of 1968, this comedy travelogue also manages to go deep with no loss of tone, which is all the more remarkable for how well the deep
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parts stand up. It got its era right better than most documentaries do, which makes sense because director Mel Stuart was primarily a documentarian. The story is mostly a collection of unsentimental love stories--Suzanne Pleshette & Ian McShane's the sizzling central focus, but Hilarie Thompson & Luke Halpin, as a small-town teen dragged along by her parents who meets an antiwar revolutionary, get a fully developed romance too. The married couples--Norman Fell & Reva Rose + Peggy Cass & Murray Hamilton--get funny story arcs, as does Michael Constantine with (no spoilers here), while Sandy Baron gets one of the great comic set pieces in all cinema, as his story almost wraps around all the others. The cameos are almost unrivaled. John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara take the piss out of pathetic loser perv shutterbug Marty Ingels, before only Ingels is on the European tour. Passersby Ingels lies about conquering include Joan Collins. A shaggy dog story about Italian shoes climaxes with Vittorio De Sica (director of Bicycle Thieves) as the shoemaker. And several others. Some broad comic bits played better in 1969 cinemas than on a home screen today, and grating editing effects during the first stop (London) are off-putting, but Europe was sexy and alive with revolution that year and this movie--while a light comedy for family audiences--showed real grownups trying to stay true to themselves in changing times with great sensitivity, precision, and grace. And I haven't even mentioned Mildred Natwick, who was never better and appears to have had the time of her life as the delightful eldest lady and moral center of the tour group. Enjoy this social documentary disguised as a tourist comedy.
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